REPUBLIC OF PORTUGAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 22 JANUARY 2006 ==================================================================== Source: National Election Commission website Parties -------------------------------------------------------------------- * BE - Bloco do Esquerda (Bloc of the Left) * PCP - Partido Comunista Portugu?s (Portuguese Communist Party) * PP- Partido Popular (People's Party) * PS - Partido Socialista (Socialist Party) * PSD - Partido Social Democratica (Social Democratic Party) NATIONAL SUMMARY ==================================================================== Enrolled voters: 8,830,706 Votes cast: 5,529,117 62.6 Invalid votes: 102,273 01.9 Valid votes: 5,426,844 98.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Manuel Alegre Duarte 1,124,662 20.7 Jer?nimo Carvalho de Sousa PCP 466,428 08.6 Ant?nio Garcia Pereira 23,650 00.4 Francisco Lou?? BE 288,244 05.3 An?bal Cavaco Silva PSD-PP 2,745,491 50.6 M?rio Soares PS 778,389 14.3 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 5,426,844 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alegre Duarte was a dissident Socialist candidate.